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 * The Financial Crisis Portal: The Center for Media and Democracy's Real Economy Project is now assessing the total cost to taxpayers of the Wall Street bailout. Multiple federal agencies have disbursed $4.6 trillion dollars in support of the financial sector since the meltdown in 2007-2008. Of that, $2 trillion is still outstanding. Our assessment demonstrates that the Federal Reserve has provided by far the bulk of the funding for the bailout in the form of loans amounting to $3.8 trillion. Little information has been disclosed about what collateral taxpayers have received in return for these loans. CMD also concludes that the bailout is far from over, as the government has active programs authorized to cost up to $2.9 trillion, and still has $2 trillion in outstanding investments and loans. Learn more about the 35 programs included in our tally by visiting our new Total Wall Street Bailout Cost Table, which contains links to pages on each bailout program, with details including the current balance sheet for each program.
 * Other blogs, websites and more resources on the financial crisis and bailout